J McLaren
@jmclaren.bsky.social
Author and dog lover - multitasking...mostly looking for the ball. Any articles from lcdviews.com should be taken with a bucketful of salt.
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It’s a disc race!
December 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
It’s a disc race!
Man insists Pope is not Catholic.
Yep, he wants nothing but deregulating crypto to help his crypto business and scrapping net zero to help his aviation fuel business. Which by pure coincidence are two of our policies.
December 6, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Man insists Pope is not Catholic.
Flagshagging?
Is this the kind of announcement the government thinks will make us all feel better about them?
www.gov.uk/government/n...
#R4Today
www.gov.uk/government/n...
#R4Today
From cheese rolling to bagpiping: UK launches search for traditions that define our communities
Communities invited to submit beloved traditions - from Highland dancing to Pancake Day - for recognition as UK living heritage.
www.gov.uk
December 6, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Flagshagging?
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🚨🚨 Politically significant decision by @ec.europa.eu to impose a €120 million fine on Elon #Musk’s #X, the first-ever penalty issued under the EU’s flagship content moderation law, the Digital Services Act. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/eu-s...
www.politico.eu/article/eu-s...
EU slaps €120M fine on Elon Musk’s X, straining ties with US
US vice president says EU should not be ‘attacking American companies over garbage.’
www.politico.eu
December 5, 2025 at 7:02 PM
🚨🚨 Politically significant decision by @ec.europa.eu to impose a €120 million fine on Elon #Musk’s #X, the first-ever penalty issued under the EU’s flagship content moderation law, the Digital Services Act. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/eu-s...
www.politico.eu/article/eu-s...
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Rising racism blamed for collapse in number of foreign nurses coming to UK.
UKIP/Reform/Farage damaged the economy with Brexit, now destroying the NHS.
The UK is an ageing society, without immigration the economy can't function. Will we ever get an honest debate?
UKIP/Reform/Farage damaged the economy with Brexit, now destroying the NHS.
The UK is an ageing society, without immigration the economy can't function. Will we ever get an honest debate?
Rising racism blamed for collapse in number of foreign nurses coming to UK
Number of overseas nurses and midwives registered between April and September was half that of a year ago
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Rising racism blamed for collapse in number of foreign nurses coming to UK.
UKIP/Reform/Farage damaged the economy with Brexit, now destroying the NHS.
The UK is an ageing society, without immigration the economy can't function. Will we ever get an honest debate?
UKIP/Reform/Farage damaged the economy with Brexit, now destroying the NHS.
The UK is an ageing society, without immigration the economy can't function. Will we ever get an honest debate?
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OTD in 1994 Russia signed the Budapest memo, guaranteeing Ukraine's territorial integrity in exchange for their nukes, 44 Ukrainian Tu-22 heavy bombers and 1,068 Kh-55 cruise missiles.
Which have been fired at Ukraine in this war.
Which have been fired at Ukraine in this war.
December 5, 2025 at 7:33 AM
OTD in 1994 Russia signed the Budapest memo, guaranteeing Ukraine's territorial integrity in exchange for their nukes, 44 Ukrainian Tu-22 heavy bombers and 1,068 Kh-55 cruise missiles.
Which have been fired at Ukraine in this war.
Which have been fired at Ukraine in this war.
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I think we’ve seen over and over that the question of whether a story “goes away” is basically: is there will to keep asking the same questions over and over, and to keep running headlines like Victims Say Politician Is Bastard. There was no will to do it before. It seems that there is now.
December 5, 2025 at 8:59 AM
I think we’ve seen over and over that the question of whether a story “goes away” is basically: is there will to keep asking the same questions over and over, and to keep running headlines like Victims Say Politician Is Bastard. There was no will to do it before. It seems that there is now.
Curious getting coding agents to do differing tasks. Sometimes they build a very complex analytical app from scratch when provided with premise and expected structure, etc. Built, done. Now. Give me another CSV report function for X...OMG it's impossible! Aargh. What goes on in those chips? lol.
December 4, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Curious getting coding agents to do differing tasks. Sometimes they build a very complex analytical app from scratch when provided with premise and expected structure, etc. Built, done. Now. Give me another CSV report function for X...OMG it's impossible! Aargh. What goes on in those chips? lol.
It's such a weird age. As if there's a bunch of insanely wealthy people who just desperately want to recreate the golden age of...
December 4, 2025 at 10:45 AM
It's such a weird age. As if there's a bunch of insanely wealthy people who just desperately want to recreate the golden age of...
Our beleaguered corner store owner, battered by Lambeth councils unceasing war against cars, and now the latest budget increasing his costs and diminishing his returns, was asking me yesterday why Lab are as bad as the Tories for him. -.- “They only have entitlement to govern. No idea what to do.” 🤷♂️
You know what? I really don't think it is. Great domestic political posturing, but Labour have no plans to go beyond the 'reset' agenda, certainly none the EU are likely to accept. This will be talk to little if any action.
Starmer declaring “we have to keep moving towards a closer relationship with the EU” is a significant moment.
Reflects transformation in public opinion + need for economic growth.
Reflects transformation in public opinion + need for economic growth.
December 4, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Our beleaguered corner store owner, battered by Lambeth councils unceasing war against cars, and now the latest budget increasing his costs and diminishing his returns, was asking me yesterday why Lab are as bad as the Tories for him. -.- “They only have entitlement to govern. No idea what to do.” 🤷♂️
As a valued customer of Thames Water I can only scream while wondering how much this continues to influence my voting decisions.
Thames Water half-year profits leap to £386m after bills rose by nearly a third.
Leaks and sewage dumping will continue for years.
£20bn+debt. A third of the bill covers interest payments.
Captive customers have no choice.
End the scam. Nationalise water.
Leaks and sewage dumping will continue for years.
£20bn+debt. A third of the bill covers interest payments.
Captive customers have no choice.
End the scam. Nationalise water.
Thames Water half-year profit leaps to nearly £400m after it raises bills by third
Revenues jumped 40% to nearly £2bn after debt-ridden utility hiked water bills sharply in April
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:16 AM
As a valued customer of Thames Water I can only scream while wondering how much this continues to influence my voting decisions.
Well I know this is a deep fake, because although highly accurate, there should be an increasing mountain of fresh skulls behind him.
December 3, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Well I know this is a deep fake, because although highly accurate, there should be an increasing mountain of fresh skulls behind him.
My exhaustive review of coding agents... GPT-5 : too prone to daydreaming and occasional random acts of vandalism. Sonnet-4.5 : fantastic for the most, but can get stuck in terrible fail loops and is out of date on Xcode. Opus 4.5 : Great. But. I don't know who reverted the build to 2 wks ago? :)
December 3, 2025 at 3:18 PM
My exhaustive review of coding agents... GPT-5 : too prone to daydreaming and occasional random acts of vandalism. Sonnet-4.5 : fantastic for the most, but can get stuck in terrible fail loops and is out of date on Xcode. Opus 4.5 : Great. But. I don't know who reverted the build to 2 wks ago? :)
Why is Labour currently fcuk’d? I think of headlines to write about them constantly and realise I already wrote them under the Tories years ago now…
Home Office to deport everyone in Britain - LCD Views
“I’m just following orders,” Sajid Javid, Temporary Home Office Secretary, told reporters outside the departure lounge at Heathrow terminal 6 this -
lcdviews.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Why is Labour currently fcuk’d? I think of headlines to write about them constantly and realise I already wrote them under the Tories years ago now…
Reminded me of this from 2019.
December 2, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Reminded me of this from 2019.
Just got the dog to howl with me. My last dog who was the best dog anyone ever had, would never howl with me. I’m pleased now. Reminds me of when I was a wee lad and I’ll howl with the dog and my mum would shout at me to stop 🤣😇. Except today we only howled three times because I live in a terrace…
December 1, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Just got the dog to howl with me. My last dog who was the best dog anyone ever had, would never howl with me. I’m pleased now. Reminds me of when I was a wee lad and I’ll howl with the dog and my mum would shout at me to stop 🤣😇. Except today we only howled three times because I live in a terrace…
There are flags all over the poles in the streets surrounding St Helier hospital in south London. A hospital which is overwhelmingly staffed by people born overseas who have looked after me with care and empathy for some years now. Like to see whoever put those flags up pay to remove them too…
Disgraceful! A patriotic flag shagger who dedicated his time to illegally putting up 64 flags is being charged £2,300 for the cost of taking them down. If it wasn't so funny I'd be furious.
November 30, 2025 at 11:00 AM
There are flags all over the poles in the streets surrounding St Helier hospital in south London. A hospital which is overwhelmingly staffed by people born overseas who have looked after me with care and empathy for some years now. Like to see whoever put those flags up pay to remove them too…
52/48 almost 🤷♂️🤣
Their Party.
Your Party members have voted to have a COLLECTIVE leadership - so against having a single leader (for now).
So no Corbyn v Sultana leadership race just yet...
Vote was tight - 51.7% in favour
So no Corbyn v Sultana leadership race just yet...
Vote was tight - 51.7% in favour
November 30, 2025 at 10:57 AM
52/48 almost 🤷♂️🤣
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Yes, Jared Diamond was wrong.
Rapa Nui's people did not suffer ecological and social collapse. They adapted to changed circumstances and thrived.
And they were nothing like "primitive"
phys.org/news/2025-11...
Rapa Nui's people did not suffer ecological and social collapse. They adapted to changed circumstances and thrived.
And they were nothing like "primitive"
phys.org/news/2025-11...
Studies show how the giant statues on Rapa Nui were made and moved—and what caused the island's deforestation
Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, is often portrayed in popular culture as an enigma. The rationale is clear: The tiny, remote island in the Pacific features nearly 1,000 enormous statues—the moa...
phys.org
November 30, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Yes, Jared Diamond was wrong.
Rapa Nui's people did not suffer ecological and social collapse. They adapted to changed circumstances and thrived.
And they were nothing like "primitive"
phys.org/news/2025-11...
Rapa Nui's people did not suffer ecological and social collapse. They adapted to changed circumstances and thrived.
And they were nothing like "primitive"
phys.org/news/2025-11...
Back in the heat of the Brexit years whenever you said the Russians are all thru this and our politics, people often thought you had Kremlin Derangement Syndrome…and earnest podcasters dismissed it all as conspiracy theory…and slowly, the light is dawning, that Russia was/is all thru our politics…
November 29, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Back in the heat of the Brexit years whenever you said the Russians are all thru this and our politics, people often thought you had Kremlin Derangement Syndrome…and earnest podcasters dismissed it all as conspiracy theory…and slowly, the light is dawning, that Russia was/is all thru our politics…
I watched this and enjoyed it. Altho it has ruined Hamlet a bit for me. Why doesn’t Hamlet’s dad’s ghost just haunt Claudius into madness and death? He seems to pop up as he likes. What obscure bit of medieval Danish afterworld legality prevented that?
I came across this youtube video you should watch. I spent months research and writing and editing it myself, but I did come across it and think you should watch it.
youtu.be/Qm3LoWtVI1U
youtu.be/Qm3LoWtVI1U
Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet: The Videogame
YouTube video by Alien Bob
youtu.be
November 29, 2025 at 9:06 AM
I watched this and enjoyed it. Altho it has ruined Hamlet a bit for me. Why doesn’t Hamlet’s dad’s ghost just haunt Claudius into madness and death? He seems to pop up as he likes. What obscure bit of medieval Danish afterworld legality prevented that?